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A godly and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Jude, containing threescore and…A godlie and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Iude, containing threescore and…
A godly and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Jude, containing threescore and six sermons preached in Cambridge by that reverend and faithful man of God, Master William Perkins, and now at the request of his executors, published by Thomas Taylor, preacher of Gods word ; whereunto is prefixed a large analysis, containing the sum and order of the whole book, according to the authors own method, to which are further added, four brief tables to direct the reader ...A godlie and learned exposition upon the whole epistle of Iude, containing threescore and sixe sermons preached in Cambridge by that reverend and faithfull man of God, Master William Perkins, and now at the request of his executors, published by Thomas Taylor, preacher of Gods word ; whereunto is prefixed a large analysis, containing the summe and order of the whole booke, according to the authors owne method, to which are further added, foure briefe tables to direct the reader ...
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1606
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Tenths (say they) standing by Gods law are not to be alienated: but the goods and lands of the Church stand chiefly in tenths, and therefore admit no alienation. Ans. In England tenths stand not by Gods laws, but by the positive laws of the land; so as if it please the King he may appoint eights, or more or less as well as they: which if it were not so, no Minister were to meddle with the tenths of his Parish: for by Gods law tenths were ⟨p. 102⟩brought to the storehouse of the overseers, and distributed by them to the Levites, according as every man had need; but the Levites themselves never meddled with them. Again, if tenths stood now by the law of God, then the poor should have every third year all the tenths of the earth: for so it was among the Jews while they stood in force by Gods law. Secondly, they object that in the Proverbs, chap. 20.25. It is a snare to devour tenths. Ans. The place is to be understood of tenths them standing in force by Gods law, not of ours which stand by mans. Thirdly, they allege that some decrees were made in the Primitive Church, that the alienation of Church lands should become sacrilege. Ans. But those decrees concerned private persons who might not, not may not on their own heads impropriate the Church goods; as also they debarred the taking away of necessaries from the Church, for then the Church was far from that superfluity which sithence it hath obtained: so that for a lay man to hold lands impropriate, the former conditions observed, is no sacrilege. Now if the question be concerning the impropriations of Colleges, whether they lawfully hold them or no: then I answer secondly, that I take it, they hold them by a more special right; for they being given at the first unto the Church, they are not (being impropriate to Colleges) generally and wholly alienated from the Church; but remain in this special use of the Church for the maintaining of the Seminaries of it; without which the Church must needs decay: and this seemeth a sufficient cause of reserving unto them this maintenance, so as ca•e be had of the people and poor for their relief & instruction.
Tenths (say they) standing by Gods law are not to bee alienated: but the goods and lands of the Church stand chiefly in tenths, and therefore admit no alienation. Ans. In England tenths stād not by Gods laws, but by the positiue lawes of the land; so as if it please the King he may appoint eights, or more or lesse as well as they: which if it were not so, no Minister were to meddle with the tenths of his Parish: for by Gods law tenths were